Principal Engineer Jobs in England

Principal Engineer
UK > England

The median Principal Engineer salary in England is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 256 485 396
Rank change year-on-year +229 -89 +108
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 1,010 471 1,381
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.07% 0.57% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 0.62% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 459 367 418
10th Percentile £55,000 £61,700 £60,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% - +21.43%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £99,688
90th Percentile £112,500 £152,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% - +21.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 89,103 75,397 137,915
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.59% 91.21% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 65,080 49,497 75,489
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,402 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Principal Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Principal Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Principal Engineer in England

Principal Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Principal Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Principal Engineer in England

Principal Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Engineer in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal Engineer in England

Principal Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 9 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +40 226 £92,500 -12.94% 61
South West +94 187 £75,000 -2.60% 27
South East +89 184 £70,000 - 42
North of England +113 168 £65,000 -17.46% 59
Midlands +79 129 £70,000 -15.15% 16
East of England +77 99 £77,500 +6.90% 34
North West +52 89 £66,440 -8.36% 44
West Midlands +48 66 £75,000 -31.82% 9
East Midlands +22 63 £65,000 -21.21% 7
Yorkshire +83 56 £65,000 -18.75% 9
North East 0 23 £55,000 -35.29% 6
Principal Engineer
UK

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, Principal Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 216 (21.39%) Problem-Solving
2 207 (20.50%) Mentoring
3 204 (20.20%) Google
4 197 (19.50%) Agile
5 183 (18.12%) Software Engineering
6 182 (18.02%) GCP
7 181 (17.92%) DevOps
8 177 (17.52%) Data Engineering
9 166 (16.44%) Analytical Skills
10 160 (15.84%) Data Pipeline
11 159 (15.74%) Self-Motivation
12 156 (15.45%) Platform Engineering
12 156 (15.45%) Roadmaps
13 153 (15.15%) BigQuery
14 150 (14.85%) Data Science
15 149 (14.75%) Looker
16 144 (14.26%) Change Management
17 143 (14.16%) GDPR
17 143 (14.16%) DataOps
17 143 (14.16%) Systems Engineering
18 142 (14.06%) Technical Leadership
19 139 (13.76%) Technology Roadmap
20 135 (13.37%) Degree
21 112 (11.09%) Security Cleared
22 100 (9.90%) AWS
23 72 (7.13%) Social Skills
24 65 (6.44%) Azure
25 62 (6.14%) Java
26 61 (6.04%) Customer Service
27 57 (5.64%) Aerospace

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (0.99%) Confluence
2 6 (0.59%) Apache Spark
2 6 (0.59%) IIS
2 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (0.59%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.30%) Apache
4 1 (0.099%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.099%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.30%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.099%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 182 (18.02%) GCP
2 100 (9.90%) AWS
3 65 (6.44%) Azure
4 42 (4.16%) Dropbox
4 42 (4.16%) Google Drive
4 42 (4.16%) OneDrive
5 17 (1.68%) Serverless
6 16 (1.58%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (0.99%) SaaS
8 8 (0.79%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (0.59%) Datadog
10 5 (0.50%) Amazon S3
10 5 (0.50%) Azure Functions
10 5 (0.50%) GitHub
11 4 (0.40%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (0.40%) AWS Fargate
11 4 (0.40%) Azure AKS
11 4 (0.40%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (0.40%) CloudFront
12 3 (0.30%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.49%) Internet
1 15 (1.49%) LAN
1 15 (1.49%) WAN
2 13 (1.29%) Wireless
3 7 (0.69%) Ethernet
3 7 (0.69%) Firewall
4 6 (0.59%) TETRA
5 5 (0.50%) 4G
5 5 (0.50%) Bluetooth
5 5 (0.50%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.40%) MPLS
7 3 (0.30%) BGP
7 3 (0.30%) IPv6
7 3 (0.30%) OSPF
7 3 (0.30%) RIP
7 3 (0.30%) SNMP
7 3 (0.30%) VLAN
7 3 (0.30%) VoIP
7 3 (0.30%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (15.15%) BigQuery
2 149 (14.75%) Looker
3 11 (1.09%) Data Lake
4 8 (0.79%) NoSQL
5 6 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (0.50%) Big Data
6 5 (0.50%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.40%) Apache Hive
7 4 (0.40%) Hadoop
8 3 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.30%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.30%) Neo4j
8 3 (0.30%) Redis
9 2 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.099%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.099%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.099%) HBase
10 1 (0.099%) MySQL
10 1 (0.099%) Power BI
10 1 (0.099%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (1.68%) Rational DOORS
2 10 (0.99%) JIRA
3 7 (0.69%) Git
4 6 (0.59%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.30%) Android Studio
5 3 (0.30%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.30%) Postman
5 3 (0.30%) Rational Rhapsody
5 3 (0.30%) Selenium
5 3 (0.30%) Subversion
6 2 (0.20%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.099%) TeamCity
General
1 166 (16.44%) Analytical Skills
2 72 (7.13%) Social Skills
3 57 (5.64%) Aerospace
4 39 (3.86%) Manufacturing
5 37 (3.66%) Electronics
6 35 (3.47%) Finance
7 30 (2.97%) Telecoms
8 15 (1.49%) Automotive
8 15 (1.49%) Military
9 12 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.09%) Health Technology
10 11 (1.09%) Marketing
11 9 (0.89%) Banking
11 9 (0.89%) Legal
11 9 (0.89%) Retail
12 8 (0.79%) Public Sector
13 7 (0.69%) Aviation
13 7 (0.69%) Law
14 5 (0.50%) Aeronautics
14 5 (0.50%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (2.67%) Spring Boot
2 26 (2.57%) Spring
3 24 (2.38%) .NET
4 17 (1.68%) React
5 16 (1.58%) Kafka
6 14 (1.39%) Node.js
7 11 (1.09%) GraphQL
8 7 (0.69%) .NET Core
8 7 (0.69%) PyTorch
9 5 (0.50%) CSS
9 5 (0.50%) TensorFlow
10 4 (0.40%) scikit-learn
11 3 (0.30%) MXNet
11 3 (0.30%) Playwright
11 3 (0.30%) Quarkus
11 3 (0.30%) Yocto
12 2 (0.20%) Apache NiFi
12 2 (0.20%) DPDK
12 2 (0.20%) eBPF
12 2 (0.20%) Micronaut
Miscellaneous
1 159 (15.74%) Self-Motivation
2 42 (4.16%) iPad
3 13 (1.29%) Cloud Native
3 13 (1.29%) FPGA
4 11 (1.09%) Data Centre
5 10 (0.99%) IoT
5 10 (0.99%) Management Information System
6 9 (0.89%) Data Structures
7 7 (0.69%) Algorithms
8 6 (0.59%) Embedded Systems
8 6 (0.59%) Mobile App
9 5 (0.50%) Hackathon
9 5 (0.50%) Raspberry Pi
10 4 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (0.30%) Acoustics
11 3 (0.30%) Arduino
11 3 (0.30%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.30%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.30%) SCADA
11 3 (0.30%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 26 (2.57%) Linux
2 15 (1.49%) Windows
3 7 (0.69%) Android
4 6 (0.59%) Unix
5 5 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (0.40%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.30%) VxWorks
8 2 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.099%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.099%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (21.39%) Problem-Solving
2 207 (20.50%) Mentoring
3 197 (19.50%) Agile
4 183 (18.12%) Software Engineering
5 181 (17.92%) DevOps
6 177 (17.52%) Data Engineering
7 160 (15.84%) Data Pipeline
8 156 (15.45%) Platform Engineering
8 156 (15.45%) Roadmaps
9 150 (14.85%) Data Science
10 144 (14.26%) Change Management
11 143 (14.16%) DataOps
11 143 (14.16%) Systems Engineering
12 142 (14.06%) Technical Leadership
13 139 (13.76%) Technology Roadmap
14 61 (6.04%) Customer Service
15 54 (5.35%) Project Delivery
16 49 (4.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 35 (3.47%) Microservices
18 33 (3.27%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 62 (6.14%) Java
2 56 (5.54%) Python
3 34 (3.37%) SQL
4 29 (2.87%) C#
5 26 (2.57%) C
6 23 (2.28%) TypeScript
7 22 (2.18%) C++
7 22 (2.18%) Kotlin
8 15 (1.49%) Scala
9 10 (0.99%) Go
9 10 (0.99%) JavaScript
10 8 (0.79%) Embedded C
11 4 (0.40%) Swift
12 3 (0.30%) Assembly Language
12 3 (0.30%) Embedded C++
12 3 (0.30%) R
12 3 (0.30%) Ruby
12 3 (0.30%) Rust
12 3 (0.30%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.20%) Perl
Qualifications
1 135 (13.37%) Degree
2 112 (11.09%) Security Cleared
3 53 (5.25%) Master's Degree
4 42 (4.16%) Chartered Engineer
5 39 (3.86%) SC Cleared
6 28 (2.77%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.39%) HNC
8 9 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.59%) CCIE
10 6 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (0.59%) JNCIA
10 6 (0.59%) JNCIS
11 3 (0.30%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.30%) MCT
11 3 (0.30%) Sun Certification
12 2 (0.20%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (14.16%) GDPR
2 9 (0.89%) QA
3 8 (0.79%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.40%) IEC 62304
4 4 (0.40%) ISO 13485
4 4 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 3 (0.30%) Def Stans
5 3 (0.30%) IEC 61508
6 2 (0.20%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (2.48%) Firmware
2 12 (1.19%) Docker
3 10 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.79%) Active Directory
4 8 (0.79%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.59%) Forefront TMG
5 6 (0.59%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.59%) VMware Workstation
6 4 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.30%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.099%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 21 (2.08%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.29%) Terraform
3 6 (0.59%) SCOM
3 6 (0.59%) WSUS
4 1 (0.099%) Puppet
Vendors
1 204 (20.20%) Google
2 42 (4.16%) EMC
3 25 (2.48%) Microsoft
4 15 (1.49%) Fortinet
4 15 (1.49%) Juniper
4 15 (1.49%) Sandvine
5 11 (1.09%) QinetiQ
6 10 (0.99%) VMware
7 6 (0.59%) Cisco
8 4 (0.40%) Databricks
9 3 (0.30%) Dataiku
9 3 (0.30%) Progress
10 2 (0.20%) CheckPoint
10 2 (0.20%) Confluent
10 2 (0.20%) Forcepoint
10 2 (0.20%) ForgeRock
10 2 (0.20%) SAP
10 2 (0.20%) Sitecore
11 1 (0.099%) Facebook
11 1 (0.099%) Twitter